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January 2. Tess Owen: Man Arrested After Shooting His Way Into Colorado Supreme Court Building.
January 3. Mari Cohen & Alex Kane: Top Executive Leaves ADL Over CEO’s Praise of Elon Musk: Yaël Eisenstat’s departure is the most prominent instance of post-October 7th dissent within the organization.
January 3. Jewish New Syndicate: Jeffrey Hobgood pleads guilty to threatening NC Jewish Federation.
January 4. The Washington Post: A quarter of Americans believe FBI instigated Jan. 6, Post-UMD poll finds: More than 3 in 10 Republicans have adopted the falsehood that the FBI conspired to cause the Capitol riot.
January 4. Spencer Sunshine: The Far Right Is Growing Stronger—and Has a Plan for 2024: Increasingly ignored by the mainstream, right-wing edgelords are amassing power behind the scenes.
January 5. Tess Owen: Headed Into Election Year, Proud Boys Appear to Be on Decline: Data collected by VICE News shows the far-right street fighting group has drastically cut back on public appearances over the last year.
January 5. Diana Falzone: Roger Stone Recorded Telling Associate to ‘Abduct’ and ‘Punish’ Mueller Investigator.
January 5. AP News: Hundreds of convictions, but a major mystery is still unsolved 3 years after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
January 5. Mack Lamoureux: It’s Not Even a Week Into 2024 and There’s a School Shooting Conspiracy: Conspiracy theorists think that a shooting that killed a sixth grader was really a coverup to protect Democrats from the recent Jeffrey Epstein revelations.
January 6. Ford Fischer (Twitter thread): In what appears to be their biggest showing of force in three years, Proud Boys gathered today outside the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus for a rally commemorating Ashli Babbitt and January 6 prisoners on the anniversary of the riot at the US Capitol.
January 8. Mack Lamoureux: US Military Veterans Are Increasingly Turning to Extremism: DOD Report.
January 8. JP Sottile: Right-Wing Christians Are Making Climate Apocalypse a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.
January 9. The Washington Post: Violent political threats surge as 2024 begins, haunting American democracy.
January 10. Mack Lamoureux: Neo-Nazi Fight Clubs Have Gone Dark Since Terror Arrests in Canada: The once-growing movement appears to be laying low following the arrests of two of their leaders.
January 10. Tess Owen: Paul Gosar Keeps Finding Himself Surrounded by Young Racists: A new report has exposed yet more former staffers for the Republican congressman as members of a white supremacist organization.
January 11. Josh Kurtz: A Republican member of the Maryland State Board of Elections was arrested by federal authorities this week and charged for his alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
January 11. AP News: Donald Trump defies judge, gives courtroom speech on tense final day of New York civil fraud trial.
January 11. Tess Owen: Democrats Propose Bill to Neuter Militias: The “Preventing Private Paramilitary Activity Act” would effectively limit most militia activity.
January 11. Ben Makuch: Neo-Nazis in the US no longer see backing Ukraine as a worthy cause.
January 11. Jared Holt & Meghan Conroy: Is ‘swatting’ the latest trend in political violence? Not so fast.
January 11. Ari Fife: A firebombing in Tulsa highlights gaps in Oklahoma hate crime law.
January 11. Seamus Hughes: FBI: White Supremacist Accelerationist Threatened Mass Murder. FBI arrests Alexander Lightner of Florida for making online threats and having an unregistered silencer. FBI raid found guns, ammo, & white supremacist propaganda.
January 11. Jordan Fischer: Maryland elections board member resigns after being charged in Capitol riot.
January 12. Cameron Joseph: Q&A: Tina Nguyen’s Unique Perspective on the American Right.
January 12. Jordan Fischer: Ax-handle wielding Proud Boy sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for Capitol riot: William “Billy” Chrestman pleaded guilty to obstructing the joint session of Congress and threatening a federal officer.
January 12. Carolyn Thompson: Prosecutors to seek death penalty for white supremacist who killed 10 at Buffalo supermarket.
January 14. The Washington Post: ‘Ordained by God’: Trump’s legal problems galvanize Iowa evangelicals.
January 17. Tess Owen: Neo-Nazi With Felony Convictions Cleared to Remain on GOP Ballot: The North Carolina Board of Elections ruled that Joseph Gibson III is eligible to run for a state House seat.
January 18. Barbara Serra: The Normalization of Italy’s Giorgia Meloni.
January 19. Tess Owen: Far-Right Congressman Complains There Aren’t Enough White People Joining the Army: Rep. Paul Gosar blamed the drop in white recruits on the army’s supposed “woke Marxist ideologies.”
January 20. Jason Wilson: Revealed: far-right figures try to create Christian nationalist ‘haven’ in Kentucky. Venture fund and real estate startup linked to far-right groups promote residential development as community for rightwingers.
January 20. Joel Achenbach: Science is revealing why American politics are so intensely polarized: Political psychologists say they see tribalism intensifying, fueled by contempt for the other side.
January 21. Lulu Garcia-Navarro: Inside the Heritage Foundation’s Plans for ‘Institutionalizing Trumpism’: “People will lose their jobs,” the think tank’s president says about federal workers. “Hopefully their lives are able to flourish in spite of that.”
January 22. Ryan J. Reilly: Ex-soldier convicted of manslaughter for killing Iraqi civilian is arrested on Jan. 6 charges: Edward Richmond Jr. of Louisiana is accused of assaulting law enforcement officers with a baton during the Capitol attack.
January 23. Nikki McCann Ramirez: Libs of TikTok Fueled Bomb Threats at Oklahoma Schools. The Superintendent Just Hired Her.
January 24. Moustafa Ayad & Isabelle Frances-Wright: Minors exposed to mass shooter glorification across mainstream social media platforms.
January 25. By Jim Rutenberg and Kate Conger: Elon Musk Is Spreading Election Misinformation, but X’s Fact Checkers Are Long Gone: Civil rights lawyers and Democrats are sounding alarms about Mr. Musk’s claims about voting. The Biden campaign called his posts “profoundly irresponsible.”
January 25. Spencer S. Hsu: Peter Navarro sentenced to 4 months for contempt of Congress in Jan. 6 probe: Navarro, 74, became the second senior former Trump adviser to face time behind bars for stonewalling Congress, joining Stephen K. Bannon.
January 26. Tess Owen: Protest Convoy Headed to Southern Border Is Calling Itself an ‘Army of God’.
January 26. Tess Owen: Trump Calls on ‘All Willing States’ to Send National Guard Soldiers to Texas.
January 26. Christopher Mathias: Right-Wing Talk Of An ‘Invasion’ And ‘Civil War’ Risks Rise In Vigilantism, Experts Say: A conservative panic about immigrants at the southern border has included calls to “buy weapons.”
January 28. Refuse Fascism Podcast: The White Power Movement in 2024.
January 28. Martin Pengelly: US historians sign brief to support Colorado’s removal of Trump from ballot: Twenty-five civil war and Reconstruction scholars support invoking 14th amendment to bar Trump from ballot over January 6.
January 29. Tess Owen: ‘Fedsurrection’ Looms Large as ‘Army of God’ Protest Convoy Heads to Border: Would-be participants are expressing fears that the demonstration could be a “psyop” or “honeypot,” spearheaded by the federal government.
January 30. Ryan J. Reilly: ‘White Lives Matter’ member gets 18 years for firebombing church that planned drag events.
January 31. Jason Wilson: Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to ‘scientific racism’ journal: Christopher Rufo recommends a newsletter to his readers that has published several supporters of discredited genetics theory.
January 31. Mack Lamoureux: Man Posted YouTube Video With Father’s Severed Head While Ranting About Joe Biden: Justin Mohn was arrested in Pennsylvania after his mother found the headless corpse.His social media shows a long history of troubling far-right conspiracy theories and talking points.
January 31. Global Project Against Hate & Extremism: How The Far-Right Spreads Hate Through Gaming.
February 1. Christopher Mathias: A White Supremacist Killed Her Dad In El Paso. Now, GOP Politicians Sound Like The Shooter. Meg Juarez’s father was among 23 people killed by a man who wanted to stop the “Hispanic invasion.” Now, she hears that language everywhere.
February 1. Tess Owen: The ‘God’s Army’ Convoy Says Militias Can Join But No Big Guns, Please: Organizers of the convoy have tried to distance themselves from extremist elements, but their own militia connections are making it hard.
February 1. Kate Briquelet: Trucker Rally Turns Into January Sixer Worship Wagon.
February 1. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: It Can’t Happen Here: Denial, Detachment, and the Desire for Normality. Ruth Ben-Ghiat looks into the consequences of underestimating the danger of authoritarianism and stresses the importance of staying informed and actively defending democracy.
February 2. Michel Martin & Odette Yousef: Growing list of public and private people are being targeted by swatting attempts.
February 2. Hannah Allam & Arelis R. Hernández: Texas border showdown is far-right magnet, hate trackers warn: As a convoy gathers in Eagle Pass, extremism monitors see vestiges of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol in Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s defiance of federal orders.
February 4. Silvia Foster-Frau & Beth Reinhard: Luxury spending, internal strife leave NRA staggering into 2024 election: Even as civil trials drain the NRA’s finances, the gun-rights movement remains a powerful force on the right.
February 4. AP News: Claims that Jan. 6 rioters are ‘political prisoners’ endure. Judges want to set the record straight.
February 6. Seamus Hughes: FBI Arrests Would-Be Border Militia Member.Authorities say Paul Faye wanted to bring explosives and weapons to border. A common federal gun charge of Tennessee man reveals an extensive FBI investigation into border militias.
February 7. Andrew Dyer: Leaked audio reveals Navy SEAL accused of extremism using Proud Boys slogan.
February 7. Rowaida Abdelaziz: Palestinian American Man Stabbed After Attending Protest.
February 7. David Gilbert: Russia Is Boosting Calls for ‘Civil War’ Over Texas Border Crisis: An all-encompassing Russian disinformation campaign is using everything from bots to lifestyle influencers to powerful state-run media to sow division in the United States.
February 8. Tori Otten: Moms for Liberty Completely Collapses in Former Strongholds: Moms for Liberty appears to be slowly imploding.
February 8. William Turton: The Far Right’s Favorite Web Host Has a Shadowy New Owner: Known for doing business with far-right extremist websites, Epik has been acquired by a company that specializes in helping businesses keep their operations secret.
February 8. Daniel Walters: How local Idaho prosecutors lost the case against Patriot Front’s white nationalist leader.
February 9. Global Project Against Hate & Extremism: Evidence of widespread interactions between Heritage Foundation officials and Viktor Orbán’s regime show a deep relationship that would bring Hungary’s “illiberal democracy” to the U.S.
February 9. Odette Yousef: The border crisis is helping to mainstream a dangerous conspiracy theory.
February 8. Nancy MacLean: Warn Voters About the Radicalism Beyond Trump: The Republicans are plotting to literally rewrite the Constitution to eliminate core rights and protections.
February 9. David Gilbert: Russian Memes Celebrate ‘Tucker Carlson Day’ After Putin Interview.
February 12. Ben Lorber: Meet the ‘Bronze Age Zionists’ — Far-Right Jews Embracing Fascism in the Wake of October 7.
February 12. Tim Dickinson: Trump and the GOP’s Fascist Rhetoric Has Broad Appeal. Poll: “There is a significant market for openly authoritarian ideologies in the United States,” says an academic who oversaw the new poll.
February 13. David Gilbert: YouTube Livestreamers Made Money ‘Hunting’ for Migrants Along the US Border: After leaving Texas, members of the Take Our Border Back convoy livestreamed their harassment of migrants in Arizona and California.
February 14. Amy McGrath: Ritual Humiliation: The Favorite Sport of Autocrats.
February 15. CNN: Head of US Marshals identifies an alarming trend and warns of a threat to democracy.
February 15. Steven Monacelli: Parker County ‘White Nationalist Fight Club’ Leader Exposed.
February 15. Carmen Forman: New Oklahoma bill could allow state to create database of women who had abortions.
February 16. Jennifer Bendery: ‘Disgusting’: Dark Money Group Unveils Wildly Islamophobic Ads Against Biden Court Pick.
February 17. María Luisa Paúl & Adela Suliman: Tucker Carlson faces new backlash over Putin interview after Navalny death.
February 18. Elaine Ganley: French mayors face violence and intimidation from xenophobic far-right groups.
February 19. NPR: Poland’s new government deprograms its once far-right public media.
February 20. Jordan Green: Inside the neo-Nazi hate network grooming children for a race war.
February 20: Will Sommer: A reporter investigated neo-Nazis. Then they came to his house in masks. The chilling visit to Raw Story reporter Jordan Green’s home represents an increasingly common tactic by extremist groups.
February 20: Heidi Przybyla & Alexander Ward: Trump allies prepare to infuse ‘Christian nationalism’ in second administration: Spearheading the effort is Russell Vought, president of The Center for Renewing America, part of a conservative consortium preparing for Trump’s return to power.
February 21. Jordan Green: Parents of ‘2119’ Nazi teens haunted by fear and regret.
February 21. Tess Owen: What We Know About the Death of Nonbinary Teen Nex Benedict: The death of the 16-year-old Oklahoman is raising new fears about the connection between anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and policies and deadly real-world violence.
February 21. David Gilbert: Gab’s Racist AI Chatbots Have Been Instructed to Deny the Holocaust: The proliferation of generative AI chatbots on extremist platforms could lead to increased radicalization, experts warn.
February 21. Payton Armstrong: Alabama Supreme Court chief justice spreads Christian nationalist rhetoric on QAnon conspiracy theorist’s show.
February 22. Tess Owen: Inside the Christian Nationalist Church Where Proud Boys Go to be Baptized: Southern California pastor Hansel Orzame leads an “unwoke church” where he prepares his followers to wage “spiritual warfare.”
February 22. Christopher Mathias: Justice Who Ruled That Embryos Are ‘Children’ Appeared On QAnon Conspiracist’s Show.
February 22. Tim Dickinson: Indiana Attorney General Sets Up Website for Snitching on ‘Socialist’ Teachers: Todd Rokita has launched a portal where citizens can tattle on so-called ‘woke’ educators.
February 22. Jeff Tischauser: Neo-Nazis Rally in Nashville for the ‘Great White South’.
February 24. Ali Velshi: ‘It’s very well-thought-out’: Authoritarian expert breaks down dangers of Project 2025.
February 24. Ben Goggin: Nazis mingle openly at CPAC, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and finding allies.
February 26. Just Security: American Autocracy Threat Tracker A Comprehensive Catalog Based on Donald Trump and His Associates’ Plans, Promises, and Propositions.
February 26. Jerod MacDonald-Evoy: Mr. QAnon Shaman goes to the Arizona Capitol.
February 27. Odette Yousef: Alabama justice’s ties with far-right Christian movement raise concern.
February 27. Eyes on the Right: Massachusetts GOP Candidate Is A Neo-Nazi Who Wants To ‘Expel’ Jews And ‘Overthrow The Government’.
February 27. Amanda Moore: I Was Banned From CPAC, but the Extremists Weren’t: From the lobby, I watched neo-Nazis and other far-right figures waltz unimpeded into the Conservative Political Action Conference.
February 28. Aurelien Mondon & Alex Yates: The word ‘populism’ is a gift to the far right – four reasons why we should stop using it.
February 29. Ryan Krull: Missouri GOP Moves to Remove ‘Honorary’ KKK Member from Ballot: Darrell McClanahan III’s Nazi salute in front of a burning cross was apparently too much for the state Republican party.
February 29. Alexandria Jacobson: ‘Hypocrites’: ‘Honorary’ KKK member running for Missouri governor trashes GOP comrades.
March 4. Maurice T. Cunningham: Key Takeaways of Moms for Liberty on ‘60 Minutes’.
March 5. Jordan Green: Feds gave classified information to neo-Nazi defendant.
March 5. Stephanie McCrummen: The Alabama Embryo Opinion Is About More Than Christian Nationalism: An insurgent religious movement is beginning to feel its strength.
March 6. Salvador Hernandez: ‘We f— them up … Lmao’: Northridge woman arrested in Jan. 6 attack on Capitol.
March 6. David Gilbert: Inside Election Conspiracy Groups on Super Tuesday: Despite Trump’s overwhelming victories on Tuesday, election deniers still found room to boost baseless conspiracies about voting fraud across the country.
March 6. David Gilbert: He Promoted an Election Conspiracy Film. Now He’s Headed for Congress. Brandon Gill, a far-right 2020 election denier who helped promote the debunked 2000 Mules film, just won his Texas primary.
March 7. Steven Monacelli: A new social network built on a vision of Christian supremacy in America gains traction with GOP politicians.
March 7. Jordan Green: Republican public schools nominee supports political killings and ‘death’ to Bill Gates.
March 8. CNN: Expert explains ‘the danger’ in Trump’s meeting with far-right leader.
March 8. Anthony Faiola & Catarina Fernandes Martins: Cool to be far right? Young Europeans are stirring a political youthquake.
March 9. Josh Kovensky: Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’: A trove of documents obtained by TPM reveal the society’s inner workings.
March 10. Matthew P. Barker: Small group of screaming protesters barge into Drag Queen Storytime at St. Catharines library.
March 11. Sheikh Saaliq: India announces steps to implement a citizenship law that excludes Muslims.
March 11. Jason Wilson: Revealed: US conservative thinktank’s links to extremist fraternal order. Claremont Institute officials closely involved with Society for American Civic Renewal, which experts say is rooted in Christian nationalism.
March 11. David Gilbert: An AI-Altered Hitler Speech Is Going Viral On X: Two AI-altered clips of Hitler’s 1939 Reichstag speech have racked up millions of views on X after being shared by a far-right troll.
March 11. Paul Blest: North Carolina’s GOP Nominee for Governor Is a Far-Right Fanatic.
March 12. Caolán Magee: Conor McGregor: How MMA star became a figurehead for the far-right in Ireland.
March 13. Jordan Green: Arrested: ‘2119’ neo-Nazi gang collaborator.
March 13. Kyle Clark: Joe Oltmann, a prominent far-right voice in Colorado politics, says Biden should be tried and executed.
March 13. Arianna Coghill & Garrison Hayes: Elon Musk Keeps Spreading a Very Specific Kind of Racism: He is the “patient zero for this sort of stuff right now.”
March 13. Christopher Mathias: He Didn’t Deny Being A White Supremacist. Then He Was Elected To City Council. Judson Blevins, a city commissioner in Enid, Oklahoma, won’t refute evidence tying him to a secretive fascist group. Does the city care enough to recall him from office?
March 13. Brandy Zadrozny: A small city in Oklahoma elected a white nationalist. Will it be able to vote him out? Judd Blevins, a city commissioner in Enid, Oklahoma, marched in the 2017 white nationalist Unite the Right rally. Now he faces a recall vote.
March 14. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Trump’s praise of dictators tells us all we need to know.
March 14. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: How to Destroy Democracy: Break Public Trust in Its Institutions, the Presidency Included.
March 14. Tess Megginson: Canada’s Right Is Moving Further Right—And Closer to the U.S.
March 15. Will Carless: Black Hammer trial delayed, Nex Benedict cause of death: The week in extremism.
March 15. Pete Young: Third Boogaloo Boy sentenced to life for court security guard’s murder.
March 15. Rowaida Abdelaziz: They Desperately Wanted To Build A Muslim Cemetery. Then Came The Backlash. Muslim American communities still face resistance when trying to find places to bury their loved ones.
March 15. NPR: The number of book titles that people tried to ban rose by 65% last year.
March 15. Casey Michel: How Viktor Orbán Conquered the Heritage Foundation: Once the redoubt of Reaganism, the think tank has taken to promoting Trump’s favorite strongman.
March 15. David Gilbert: New Far-Right Conspiracy Claims Boeing’s Accidents Are Intentional:Following a series of incidents involving the company’s planes, some conspiracists are baselessly alleging that Boeing is failing on purpose as part of a global plot to bring down Western civilization.
March 18. Vittoria Elliott: Today’s Supreme Court Hearing Addresses a Far-Right Bogeyman: For years, government agencies have flagged misinformation and harmful content to platforms. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Murthy v. Missouri could change all that.
March 18. Adam Gopnik: The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers: The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it.
March 18. Norman Eisen & Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Context only makes Trump’s ‘bloodbath’ comment worse: Authoritarians know that to get people to overcome taboos about committing violence.
March 19. NPR: Young conservatives have grown up in Trump’s Republican Party. Now, it’s time to vote.
March 19. Molly Redden: Inside The Ritzy Retreats Hosting Right-Wing Judges: During Koch-funded trips to mountain resorts, Trump judges huddled over a new strategy to advance “history and tradition” as the law of the land.
March 19. Michael Goldberg: Mississippi ‘Goon Squad’ deputies get yearslong sentences for racist torture of 2 Black men.
March 19. The Guardian: White supremacy groups in Chillicothe: Investigating hate and controversy.
March 20. Bill Chappell: Alabama governor signs ban on DEI funds that restricts ‘divisive concepts’ in schools.
March 20. Makena Kelly & William Turton: Parler’s New Owners Swear This Time Will Be Different: The “free speech” social media alternative is back on Apple’s App Store ahead of its official relaunch.
March 20. David Gilbert: Elon Musk’s X Is Suspending Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist’s Alleged Identity: Researchers and journalists have been blocked on X from sharing the alleged identity of the neo-Nazi cartoonist Stonetoss.
March 22. Will Carless: To combat bullying and extremism, Air Force Academy turns to social media sleuthing.
March 22. Will Carless: This social media network set the stage for Jan. 6, then was taken offline. Now it’s back.
March 22. Mark Alesia: Convicted January 6 felon wants to storm the Capitol again — as an elected congressman.
March 23. The Washington Post: Trump escalates solidarity with Jan. 6 rioters as his own trials close in: The presumptive Republican nominee is aligning himself with the rioters and intensifying his use of dark, graphic and at times violent language.
March 25. Musk’s X Corp loses lawsuit against hate speech watchdog.
March 26. Anna Merlan: A new HBO documentary shows how Alex Jones’ lies are still ruining lives: “The harassment never goes away,” one family member says.
March 26. Debbie Elliott & Odette Yousef: As he campaigns, Trump has been leaning into his narrative of Jan. 6.
March 26. International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Qatari royal invested about $50 million in pro-Trump network Newsmax.
March 27. Michael Lee: Fugitive US Militant Ammon Bundy Geolocated to Utah.
March 27. Anna Merlan: Transvestigation: What to Know About the Bizarre and Transphobic Conspiracy Theory.
March 28. Hannah Gais & Spencer Sunshine: How a Mainstream Racist Group Revived the Terroristic Tome ‘Siege’.
March 29. CNN: Federal judge delivers rare response after Trump attacks the daughter of a judge.
March 29. Jason Wilson: Revealed: US professor was behind extremist site that spread conspiracies. Documents show Scott Yenor ran Action Idaho, which attacked LGBTQ+ people and Republicans deemed not rightwing enough.
March 29. Kate Brady & Karla Adam: Once wary of extremist violence, Europe now fears extremism in politics.
March 29. The Washington Post: Many GOP billionaires balked at Jan. 6. They’re coming back to Trump.
March 29. Shane Burley: Christ Is King: Candace Owens’ antisemitism was a feature, not a bug. And it’s the whole Right that’s infected.
March 29. J.D. Wolf: Trump Posts Image of Joe Biden Kidnapped And Bound With Rope: Trump signals approval of violent imagery targeting his political opponents.
March 29. Will Carless: Study found hate speech in tweets. So Musk tried to punish the researchers, judge says.
March. 30. CNN: Trump posts video that shows image of Biden tied up in the back of a truck.
March 31. Hannah Allam: How the FBI’s visit to a Muslim woman became a right-wing rallying cry: A viral video of FBI agents looking into pro-Palestinian Facebook posts reflects the muddled politics and social media swirl of 2024.
April 1. Sam Eagan: Cage Fighting Is the Key to Trump’s Reelection Campaign: The former president has built an alliance with UFC head Dana White to woo young men.
April 2. Diego Lopez & Arun Rath: How far-right activists co-opt strategies of the Civil Rights Movement.
April 2. Diana Paulsen: Several Trump supporters involved in Jan. 6 are running for office this year: Candidates involved in the events of Jan. 6, 2021, will be on ballots across the country this year.
April 2. Rowaida Abdelaziz: Anti-Muslim Incidents In U.S. Break Records: The CAIR report points to the war in Gaza as the primary driver behind the dramatic increase in anti-Muslim sentiment.
April 2. Christopher Mathias: Judson Blevins, City Councilman With Neo-Nazi Ties, Loses Recall Election.
April 2. Will Carless: Is Antifa a gang? Trial in street brawl at pro-Trump rally opens a landmark legal test.
April 3. Laura Santhanam: 1 in 5 Americans think violence may solve U.S. divisions, poll finds.
April 3. Hugo Lowell: Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation.
April 3. David Gilbert: US Navy Veteran Who Feds Say Rammed FBI Headquarters Had QAnon-Linked Online Presence.
April 4. Isaac Arnsdorf: How Steve Bannon guided the MAGA movement’s rebound from Jan. 6.
April 5. Abner Häuge: Nazi Marine is out of the brig and trying to make prize fight money.
April 5. David Gilbert: The Solar Eclipse Is the Super Bowl for Conspiracists: Far-right conspiracy theorists are claiming that “elites” will use the eclipse to control humanity, sway the presidential election, and everything else under the sun.
April 5. David Corn & Dan Friedman: RFK Jr. Fundraisers Tied to J6ers, QAnoners, Christian Nationalists, and Far-Right Extremists.
April 8. Kate Burns: Gen Z for Straight Jesus: The Christian Nationalist Recruiters of ‘CA Will be Saved.’
April 8. Will Carless: Saying prosecutors should focus on Antifa, judge frees white supremacist in beating.
April 9. Hannah Allam & Razzan Nakhlawi: Virginia militia member raised suspicion, then alarm with talk of bombs: A militia group’s rare public warning about a former member shows how concerns around Justice Department prosecutions is changing extremist organizing.
April 10. Eyewitness News: Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University vandalized during Eid al-Fitr.
April 10. Jordan Green: FBI still hasn’t arrested hundreds of violent J6ers. Time is running out.
April 10. William Turton: The Hacking Lawsuit Looming Over Truth Social: The founding CEO of DWAC has accused his former assistant of hacking into his accounts as part of a “coup d’état,” the latest legal mess for Truth Social.
April 10. Ali Winston: Sam Woodward Trial Unmasks Tristan “Kruuz” Evans, ex-Atomwaffen Division Member Currently Involved in The Base Reboot.
April 11. David Gilbert: Election Workers Are Already Burned Out—and on High Alert: Violent threats, rampant disinformation, budget shortfalls, and mass resignations: Election workers have a long road to November.
April 11. Makena Kelly: Election Deniers Aren’t Waiting for November: A toxic mix of disinformation, digital tools, and generative AI is challenging election officials across the country.
April 12. Sebastian Murdock: Fox News, Far-Right Podcasters Sued For Linking Wrong Man To Neo-Nazi Shooting.
April 12. David Gilbert: Alex Garland’s Civil War Plays Both Sides: Civil War is a big and loud and visually arresting film, but its politics are confused and potentially radicalizing.
April 12. Will Carless: His father founded the Oath Keepers, went to prison. He’s running for office as a Democrat.
April 12. Robert Downen: Far-right activist Jonathan Stickland starts new group, months after white supremacist scandal.
April 15. Shane Burley: Collapse of White Nationalist Party Offers Lessons for Anti-Fascist Strategy: The inherent instability of white supremacist groups offers anti-fascists the tools to sow chaos within the movement.
April 15. Nate Gartrell: Richmond man ‘ranted’ that hospital favored non-whites, threatened staff before police found hundreds of guns, 11,000 pounds of ammo at his home: Twenty-two silencers, 46 grenades, 869 magazines also seized.
April 16. Hannah Gais: The Origin of Specious: The roots of “anti-woke” rhetoric, from Richard Hanania’s alt-right screeds to Charles Murray’s bigoted race science.
April 16. Hannah Allam & Razzan Nakhlawi: Virginia man ousted from militia charged with making deadly toxin: Federal charges related to manufacturing ricin deepens intrigue in a case that’s shining a light on the evolution of the anti-government movement.
April 16. Jeff Tischauser: Mixed Martial Arts Fighter in Montana Has Ties to the Far Right.
April 17. Matt Shuham: Election Officials Nationwide Are Making Big Security Upgrades Ahead Of November. Election administration used to be a “sleepy industry.” Now, officials are building ventilated mail rooms and training for crises.
April 17. Brett Sholtis: Parents confront Warwick school board over secret meeting with lawyer who has helped schools ban books.
April 18. David Gilbert: Far-Right Sheriffs Want a Citizen Army to Stop ‘Illegal Immigrant’ Voters: Speakers at a conference for Constitutional Sheriffs claimed that militias need to patrol polling stations to stop the “expected flood” of immigrant voters.
April 18. Lil Kalish: A Second Trump Presidency Would Be A Nightmare Scenario For Transgender People.
April 18. Brandy Zadrozny: A sheriff, a felon and a conspiracy theorist walk into a hotel. They’re there for the same conference.The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association is urging lawmen to form posses, seize voting machines and investigate baseless claims of voter fraud.
April 18. Jessica Guynn & Will Carless: Columbine school shooters glorified by young followers: Inside the scary online obsession.
April 18. USA Today: Antisemitism is everywhere. We tracked it across all 50 states.
April 19. Douglas Braff: ‘I didn’t know anything about this’: Why teaching the Oklahoma City bombing is important.
April 19. Jordan Green. Busted: Paul Gosar campaign consultant linked to antisemitism and white nationalism.
April 19. Jordan Green. Accused Jan. 6 rioter nicknamed ‘lead pipe guy’ arrested months after he was ID-ed to FBI.
April 20. Isaac Arnsdorf: Proud Boys appear at Trump rally, drawing condemnation from Biden.
April 21. Tom Phillips: Bolsonaro supporters hit streets of Rio and hail new hero Elon Musk: Owner of X has used social media platform to bash judge in charge of investigations into former president.
April 23. Odette Yousef: More and more, young kids are being exposed to hate ideologies.
April 24. Adam Serwer: The Republicans Who Want American Carnage: Calls for the National Guard to stop campus protests are not about safety.
April 24. Yvonne Wingett Sanchez: Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe.
April 24. Naomi Feinstein: Mayor Suarez Clears Calendar for Far-Right Podcaster Who Battles “Globohomo” Agenda: Meanwhile, Francis Suarez won’t give the local Miami media the time of day.
April 26. Christopher Mathias: At Columbia, Pro-Israel Crowd Yells ‘Go Back To Gaza!’ At Pro-Palestinian Students: The incident occurred after a group of Christian nationalists marched outside the campus, which is the site of a pro-Palestinian student encampment.
April 26. Will Carless: Far-right influencers claim student protests are violent. Experts have different worries.
April 27. NPR: Germany’s far-right AfD is using TikTok to vie for the immigrant vote.
April 29. Eyes on the Right: Speakers At White Nationalist Conference Included Ex-DOJ Official.
April 29. Dominick Bonny: Cashmere’s ‘Collective’ Kicks Off Four-Weekend ‘Kingdom Defense’ Survival Workshop.
April 30. Roque Planas: Border Patrol Agents Joked About Killing Migrant Children.
April 30: Eric Cortellessa: How Far Trump Would Go.
May. Combatting Terrorism Center at West Point: Rising Threats to Public Officials: A Review of 10 Years of Federal Data.
May 1. Hannah Gais: On campus protests, “unite the right,” and jan. 6.
May 1. Bob Smietana: How a beloved worship song became the theme song of Christian nationalism.
May 1. Zachary B. Wolf: Trump explains his militaristic plan to deport 15-20 million people.
May 2. Sebastian Murdock: Elon Musk Says He’ll Reinstate Twitter Account Of Hitler-Loving White Supremacist.
May 7. Frank Figliuzzi: Far right militias are returning to Facebook — and it’s looking the other way: Inattention from the platform’s parent company Meta risks abetting another event like Jan. 6.
May 7. Peggy Gallek: Man accused of vandalizing underpass with Nazi graffiti, faced similar charges in past.
May 7. Chainalysis Team: Assessing Terrorism Financing On-chain is Crucial and Complex.
May 8. Christopher Mathias & Matt Shuham: Cousin Of Extremist Rabbi Charged With Driving Car Into Pro-Palestinian Protesters.
May 8. The Washington Post: How Trump’s allies amplify his Truth Social messages to the wider world.
May 9. Jessica Schulberg: There’s A GOP Plan For An Execution Spree If Trump Wins The White House: Buried on page 554 of the plan is a directive to execute every remaining person on federal death row — and dramatically expand the use of the death penalty.
May 10. Ali Winston: Why far-right groups are disrupting US campus protests: ‘When there’s so much attention, they show up’.
May 14. Mike Wendling: US woman pleads guilty in neo-Nazi plot to attack power grid.
May 15. Ben Lorber: The Right’s Anti-Israel Insurgents: A burgeoning anti-Zionist strain in the America First movement looks to capitalize on popular disaffection over Palestine for its own ends.
May 16. Federico Finchelstein & Emmanuel Guerisoli: The “Day One” Dictatorship: On the law in a fascist America.
May 16. Martin Pengelly: Gaetz invokes Trump’s call to far-right Proud Boys at hush-money trial: Republican congressman travels to New York to support former president and says he is ‘standing back, and standing by’.
May 17. Michael Levenson: How Election Deniers Claimed the Upside-Down Flag.
May 17. Christopher Hooks: Why Did Greg Abbott Pardon a Racist Murderer? The governor didn’t offer much of a rationale in granting clemency to Daniel Perry, who killed a Black Lives Matter protester in 2020, but apparently the enemy of his enemy is his friend.
May 19. Frank Figliuzzi: Greg Abbott pardoning killer of Black Lives Matter protester sends chilling message: Setting Daniel Perry free suggests that in Texas, it’s open season on protesters whose cause isn’t approved by the governor.
May 20. Justin Corr: Extreme hate in Idaho: Part I of III. This three-part series analyzes the observable extremist hate groups in Idaho. How they’ve been created, the threat they pose and the importance of combating it.
May 21. Andy Downing & Joel Oliphint: White Power Outage: Inside a Hilliard teen’s fascist terror plot. Christopher Cook was sentenced last year in a white supremacist plot to attack the nation’s power grid, capping his evolution from isolated suburbanite to neo-Nazi radical.
May 21. NPR: Trump posted a video on Truth Social calling the country a ‘unified reich’ if he wins.
May 21. Kayla Gogarty: The unhinged MAGA “meme team” apparently behind Trump’s “unified Reich” video.
May 21. Ian Ward: The right’s fascism problem.
May 21. Nuria Martinez-Keel: New criteria for Oklahoma textbooks asks for ‘traditional’ gender roles, reverence for religion.
May 21. Scott MacFarlane: During arraignment, Capitol riot defendant defiantly predicts Trump will win election and shutter Jan. 6 criminal cases.
May 22. The New York Times: Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Alito Home: The justice’s beach house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on Jan. 6 and associated with a push for a more Christian-minded government.
May 22. Ja’han Jones: Austin police officials quietly backed pardon for man who killed Black Lives Matter protester.
May 22. Andy Kroll: Scenes From a MAGA Meltdown: Inside the “America First” Movement’s War Over Democracy.
May 22. Brianna Morris-Grant: Misinformation posted to Twitter comes from ‘superspreader’ accounts, say researchers, amid warnings for future of content moderation on X.
May 22. Laurie Wood: Ten years later, reverberations from the Bundy standoff continue to shape the anti-government landscape.
May 22. Vittoria Elliott & David Gilbert: A Far-Right Indian News Site Posts Racist Conspiracies. US Tech Companies Keep Platforming It.
May 23. Tess Owen: MyChurchFinder is an online directory to Christian nationalist congregations: To receive an A rating, pastors must demonstrate that they lead a ‘biblically sound, culturally aware & non-socialistic legislatively active church.’Failing to meet any of those criteria earns a church a ‘WNR’ — ‘Would Not Recommend.’
May 23. Shane Burley: The Organizational Psychology of the Far Right.
May 23. By Amy Gardner & Yvonne Wingett Sanchez: Electors who tried to reverse Trump’s 2020 defeat are poised to serve again.
May 24. Tess Owen: A deranged fringe movement’: what is Maga communism, the online ideology platformed by Tucker Carlson?
May 24. Jason Wilson: At least 66 members of far-right group in rural Oregon standing for office: Revealed: anti-government People’s Rights Network, founded by Ammon Bundy, appearing to follow ‘entryism’ strategy.
May 26. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Denial about Donald Trump is deeper than ever: Authoritarians have often told us what they are going to do, but people have rarely believed them.
May 26. Paul Rosenberg: Cracking the Christian nationalist code: A glossary for the confused. The Christian right has a clearly anti-democratic agenda — but it’s concealed with deliberately confusing terms.
May 29. Amanda Milkovits: R.I. neo-Nazi member accused of possessing child pornography. Stephen Farrea, of Portsmouth, is part of the Nationalist Social Club-131, which targets drag queen story hours.
May 30. NPR: Europeans choose new Parliament, with far-right and Russian disinformation both on the rise.
May 30. David K. Li & Emily Berk: Driver accused of jumping curb, targeting people outside New York City Jewish school. No one was hurt, and Asghar Ali, 58, was arrested and booked on a slew of charges, including attempted second-degree murder as a hate crime.
May 30. Tess Owen: Trump’s Online MAGA Army Calls Guilty Verdict a Declaration of War:Trump supporters, fringe extremists, right-wing pundits, and politicians have all posted incendiary rhetoric, including some calls for “war,” following former president Donald Trump’s felony conviction.
May 30. Steven Lee Myers: Once a sheriff’s deputy in Florida, now a source of disinformation from Russia.
May 31. Tom Dreisbach: Publisher of ‘2,000 Mules’ election conspiracy theory film issues apology.
May 31. Jordan Green. Florida teens tied to ‘2119’ neo-Nazi gang to plead guilty for antisemitic attacks.
June 3. NPR: Why many scientists fear a second Trump term.
June 3. Emma Bowman: The upside-down American flag goes mainstream as a form of right-wing protest.
June 3. Aram Roston: The Proud Boys are back: How the far-right group is rebuilding to rally behind Trump.
June 4. Christopher Mathias: Alarming Report Warns Of ‘Greatest Threat To American Democracy You’ve Never Heard Of’: An annual report from the Southern Poverty Law Center describes a burgeoning new form of Christian supremacy sweeping the country.
June 4. David Rothkopf: In the Former Eastern Bloc, They’re Terrified of a Trump Presidency. For Americans, authoritarian rule is theoretical. But in Eastern Europe, reminders of it are everywhere, as is dread of a partial return to those days.
June 6. NPR: Politicians are facing increasing attacks in the run-up to a new European parliament.
June 6. Oliver Darcy: Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars.
June 7. Alex Kaplan: A group of far-right media figures is using social media to recruit for its newly formed militia: The group is recruiting on Instagram, despite Meta’s previous crackdowns on militias.
June 7. Jordan Fischer: Father & son who fled dictatorship in Iran sentenced to prison for assaulting police on Jan. 6.
June 7. AP News: Mistrial declared for man charged with using a torch to intimidate at white nationalist rally.
June 7. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: The New-Old Authoritarianism.
June 7. Will Carless: Far-right extremist groups show surging growth.
June 8. Beth Reinhard: Trump loyalist pushes ‘post-constitutional’ vision for second term: Russ Vought, the former president’s budget director, is laying the groundwork for a broad expansion of presidential powers.
June 8. Tom Boggioni: ‘MAGA die-hard’ lawyers making plans to claim fraud in Georgia no matter who wins: report.
June 9. AP News: Far-right gains in the EU election deal stunning defeats to France’s Macron and Germany’s Scholz.
June 11. Adam Reiss & David K. Li: Neo-Nazi sold gun parts to extremists online while in prison using smuggled phones.
June 11. Sara Fischer: Dark money news outlets outpacing local daily newspapers.
June 12. Alex Kaplan: Election denier behind “Pence Card” theory says he’s coordinating with far-right sheriffs group to get “a little bit of retribution”.
June 12. Teddy Wilson: How Deep Does Right Wing Extremism Go In The Republican Party?
June 12. Edward Luce: The appeal of an American Caesar: A well-organised cabal of rightwing intellectuals is assembling an authoritarian playbook for Donald Trump.
June 13. Douglas Soule: ‘Challenges our authority’: School board in Florida bans book about book bans.
June 13. U.S. Department of State: Addressing the Threat of REMVE Radicalization to Violence in the Americas.
June 13. Michelle Boorstein & Hannah Knowles: Here’s what the Christian right wants from a second Trump term: Religious conservatives see opportunities for fresh gains after a series of victories during Trump’s first term. Rights advocates see a dangerous blurring of church and state.
June 14. U.S. Department of State: Terrorist Designations of Nordic Resistance Movement and Three Leaders.
June 14. Seamus Hughes: FBI Arrests Texas Man Threatening Mass Shooting.
June 14. Just Security: American Autocracy Threat Tracker: A Comprehensive Catalog Based on Donald Trump and His Associates’ Plans, Promises, and Propositions.
June 15. Jordan Green: House Republicans subpoena ex-Capitol Police intel head for Jan. 6 inquiry.
June 17. Steve Neavling: White nationalists double-booted from Detroit venues over the weekend: A Black security guard who was assaulted at a Detroit club delivered a Superman punch to a Nick Fuentes fan.
June 18. Philip Bump: The data on race and murder that Elon Musk gave a ‘!’ deserved a ‘?’ The owner of X (formerly Twitter) expressed amazement at a false claim about violence committed by Black people.
June 18. Alex DeLuca: Ex-Proud Boy Is Running for High-Ranking Position in Miami-Dade GOP: The candidate’s run may provide insight into whether the Miami-Dade GOP is still willing to embrace Proud Boys-linked locals.
June 18. Jordan Green: ‘They could have killed me’: Spycraft, ballots and a Trumped-up plot gone haywire.
June 18. Jeff Tischauser: An ‘Angry Fascist’ Revealed: An Alabama man who has been charged in connection with racist and antisemitic vandalism in Nashville, Tennessee, appears to associate with organized white power groups.
June 20. Shane Burley: Paul Gottfried’s Career Smuggling Fascist Politics into the Academic Canon.
June 20. Laura Jedeed: Inside the Rise and Fall of Project Veritas: James O’Keefe helped transform U.S. conservatism into a war machine — then it all imploded.
June 20. Sara Cline: New law requires all Louisiana public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.
June 20. Michelle Boorstein & Danielle Paquette: La.’s Ten Commandments law will test religion-friendly courts.
June 20. Paul A. Djupe: How Christian nationalism is going under the radar in this election: As the nonreligious population grows, many Americans are socially insulated from crucial political realities.
June 20. David Gilbert: Neo-Nazis Are All-In on AI: Extremists are developing their own hateful AIs to supercharge radicalization and fundraising—and are now using the tech to make weapon blueprints and bombs. And it’s going to get worse.
June 20. Jordan Green. Marine Corps veteran accused in Nazi plot plans to plead guilty.
June 21. Shane Burley: How Deep Does Substack’s Far-Right Problem Run, Really?
June 21. Nicole Markus & Patrick Marley: Nevada judge dismisses case against Trump electors, citing jurisdiction: Nevada’s attorney general’s office said it would immediately appeal the decision, which affects six Republicans charged for their role in the 2020 election.
June 21. Asawin Suebsaeng & Adam Rawnsley: Trump’s Not ‘Bluffing’: Inside the MAGA Efforts To Make a Second Term Even More Extreme.
June 22. The Washington Post: Trump spreads violent rhetoric by suggesting migrants should fight for sport.
June 23. Ayesha Rascoe: Hungary’s far-right leader is set to take over rotating presidency of the EU.
June 23. Andrew Vitek: Blind Spots and Backdoors: The Growth of the Global Far-right and the Paralysis of Liberal Democracies.
June 24. Anne Nelson: God and QR Codes for Trump: The Courage Tour Goes to Michigan.
June 25. DOJ: Last of Five Defendants with Ties to White Supremacy and Who Were Charged with Targeting Idaho Energy Facilities Enters Guilty Plea.
June 27. NPR: Oklahoma state superintendent says schools must assimilate the Bible into curriculum.
July. The ReidOut: Project 2025.
July. NCITE: Snapshot of U.S. Federal Cases Against Violent QAnon Adherents.
July. The New Republic (special article roundup): What American Fascism Would Look Like.
July 1. Denise Lavoie: Court orders white nationalists to pay $2M more for Charlottesville Unite the Right violence.
July 1. James Goodwin: Inside Project 2025.
July 8. Jordan Fischer: Former Oath Keepers lawyer to plead guilty in Capitol riot case: Kellye SoRelle, of Texas, previously served as general counsel for the Oath Keepers militia and as an attorney for Latinos for Trump.
July 8. By Josh Dawsey & Hannah Knowles: Democrats focus attacks on right-wing Project 2025 pushed by Trump allies.
July 8. David Gilbert: The Far Right Is Already Demonizing Kamala Harris: Social media platforms, far-right message boards, and extremist Telegram channels are full of misogynistic and racist hatred directed at the vice president.
July 9. Philip Bump: The ‘great replacement’ theory, now in legislation form:A Republican effort to combine election denialism and border alarmism, known as the Save Act, is having the desired effect.
July 9. Rachel Leingang: Project 2025: inside Trump’s ties to the rightwing policy playbook.
July 10. Jordan Green: Trump’s ‘secretary of retribution’ has a ‘target list’ of 350 people he wants arrested.
July 10. Rick Perlstein: Project 2025 … and 1921, and 1973, and 1981. Terrifying blueprints for the next Republican presidency are a quadrennial tradition.
July 10. Martin Pengelly: Democrat warns US leaders about Trump loyalist’s ‘target list’ of people to be detained in live stream raids. Jamie Raskin says report on Ivan Raiklin, who calls himself Trump’s ‘secretary of retribution’, is ‘deadly serious.’
July 11. Ed Pilkington: How Clarence Thomas has provided a list of legal targets to ultra-right groups.
July 13. Alice Herman: ‘Rule of the lawless’: what does the authoritarian playbook look like?
July 13. Hannah Allam: Pro-Trump Christian extremists use scripture to justify violent goals: As Donald Trump is deemed a “spiritual warrior,” extremism researchers warn of the menace embedded in Christian nationalist rhetoric.
July 13. Dave Levinthal: Project 2025 group makes immediate splash at Republican National Convention.
July 14. David Gilbert: Far-Right Extremists Call for Violence and War After Trump Shooting.
July 14. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Why political violence and violent threats are on the rise in the United States.
July 14. NPR: Conspiracy theories surge following the assassination attempt on Trump.
July 14. The Washington Post: America’s grievance-fueled politics poised to continue after Trump shooting: There were few signs that calls for greater understanding across party lines had filtered down to the grassroots — or that any softening of divisions would last.
July 14. George Lakoff & Gil Duran: Donald Trump and the language of violence: No one has done more to frame American politics in violent terms.
July 14. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: The scariest thing dictators are doing now: Working together. According to Anne Applebaum’s “Autocracy, Inc.,” dictators are less interested in ideological alliances and more interested in helping each other stay powerful.
July 15. David Gilbert: The Right Is Blaming Women and DEI for the Secret Service’s Failure in Trump Shooting.
July 15. iHeartRadio: Project 2025: Trump’s Second Term Not-So-Secret Plan.
July 15. Tess Owen: Militias Are Recruiting Off of the Trump Shooting.
July 15. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: ‘It was only a matter of time before we got to political assassinations,’ says expert on political violence.
July 16. Hannah Gais: To Russia, with Love: The American right’s romance with Russia.
July 16. AP News: Far-right groups that block aid to Gaza receive tax-deductible donations from US and Israel.
July 16. AP News: Germany’s top security official bans a far-right magazine, accusing it of spreading hatred.
July 16. Andy Kroll & Nick Surgey: In Private Speech, J.D. Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” and Praised Alex Jones as a Truth-Teller:Vance gave the speech to the secretive Teneo Network. The GOP vice presidential nominee has been a member of the Leonard Leo-backed group, which seeks to cultivate conservative influence in business and culture.
July 16. Andy Kroll & Nick Surgey: In Private Speech, J.D. Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” and Praised Alex Jones as a Truth-Teller.
July 17. The Washington Post: In Vance, Trump finds a kindred spirit on election denial and Jan. 6.
July 17. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: It’s not just politicians who should be held accountable for violent speech: The attempted Trump assassination should be a reckoning for ordinary Americans as well.
July 17. Christopher Mathias: He Went To A White Supremacist Conference. He Just Spoke At The RNC. In 2022, Thomas Homan, the head of ICE under Donald Trump, accepted an invitation to speak at a racist event hosted by Nick Fuentes.
July 18. Mariana Alfaro: Far-right attacks target J.D. Vance’s wife Usha’s Indian heritage.
July 18. NPR: How to help prevent more political violence this election cycle.
July 18. The Washington Post: The Silicon Valley realignment leading tech titans to Trump: With J.D. Vance on the ticket, some tech power players who previously denounced the former president are going all-in, a major shift in an industry that has long skewed blue.
July 18. Christopher Mathias: Tucker Carlson Hated Trump ‘Passionately.’ He Just Endorsed Him At The RNC. The former Fox News host could play a big role in a second Trump administration, a horrifying prospect considering the propaganda he produces.
July 18. Amanda Moore: I Watched Groypers Descend on Detroit — Where They Were No Longer Pariahs Among Mainstream Republicans.
July 18. Vittoria Elliott: Fortnite Has a Political Violence Problem: In a report shared exclusively with WIRED, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism says it found more than a dozen user-generated games on Fortnite that featured antisemitism and political violence.
July 19. Sam Levine: Election denialism front and center at Republican national convention.
July 19. Timothy Snyder: The Republican blueprint for power contains the seeds of its own demise.
July 19. Jeff Schogol: Project 2025’s plan for the US military.
July 20. Tim Dickinson & Asawin Suebsaeng: Inside the MAGA Asylum: Four Days of Worship With the Cult of Trump.
July 23. Brandy Zadrozny: How the ‘second shooter’ conspiracy theory spread after the Trump assassination attempt: The FBI says the gunman acted alone, and the Secret Service says there’s no evidence of a second shooter. That hasn’t stopped the speculation online.
July 25. Arthur Delaney: JD Vance Wrote Book Blurb For Jack Posobiec, Far-Right Influencer Of Pizzagate Fame. The book, “Unhumans,” suggests progressives aren’t really people.
July 26. Rachel Leingang & Stephanie Kirchgaessner: Kevin Roberts, architect of Project 2025, has close ties to radical Catholic group Opus Dei.
July 28. Sara Ruberg: 3 Men With White Supremacist Ties Sentenced in Plan to Attack Power Station.
July 29. David Gilbert: TikTok Has a Nazi Problem: Not only is TikTok’s algorithm promoting Neo-Nazi content, extremist organizations are also using the platform to recruit new members and encourage real-world action.
July 29. McKay Coppins: The Most Revealing Moment of a Trump Rally: A close reading of the prayers delivered before the former president speaks.
July 29. Institute for Strategic Dialog. NazTok: An organized neo-Nazi TikTok network is getting millions of views.
July 29. Will Carless: Project 2025 decried as racist. Some contributors have trail of racist writings, activity. They include Richard Hanania, whose pseudonymous writings for white supremacist sites were uncovered last year.
July 30. Tristan Lee & Steven Monacelli: Neo-Nazi Gang Affiliates Attacked a Mixed-Race Family.
July 30. Alex Shephard: Read J.D. Vance’s Violent Foreword to Project 2025 Leader’s New Book.
July 31. William Booth & Leo Sands: Far-right rioters attack U.K. police, mosque amid false claims on stabbings: The riot in Southport, England, followed false claims that an immigrant was responsible for the attack on a Taylor Swift-themed dance class that killed three girls.
July 31. Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Benjamin Carter Hett: Would Trump stop free and fair elections? Hitler and Mussolini’s paths could be a clue.
August 1. Jordan Green: Texas sheriffs engage conspiracy theorist who created Trump enemies ‘target list’.
August 1. Alex Kaplan: Far-right figures laud Project 2025, calling it “the best personnel database”. August 1. Neha Gohil & Josh Halliday: Police in England urged to protect mosques as far right plans more rallies.
August 1. Jacob Wagner: Patriot Front and Active Clubs: Two modern models of white nationalist organizing.
August 1. Jake Hanrahan & Ali Winston: He Was an FBI Informant—and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists:Joshua Caleb Sutter infiltrated far-right extremist organizations as a confidential FBI informant, all while promoting hateful ideologies that influenced some of the internet’s most violent groups.
August 3. Carole Cadwalladr: ‘A polarisation engine’: how social media has created a ‘perfect storm’ for UK’s far-right riots.
August 4. Tracy Samilton: Far-right group has members running for sheriff in at least 5 Michigan counties in Tuesday primary.
August 4. Brooke Harrington: The Broligarchs Are Trying to Have Their Way: The antidemocratic politics of having it all.
August 4. Brett Wagner: Project 2025 put a key Jan. 6 figure in charge of military strategy. His plan is as dangerous as you’d imagine.
August 5. NPR: Misinformation online fueled all-out race riots in the United Kingdom.
August 5. The Washington Post: With voting under attack, Arizona schools don’t want to be polling locations: As false information about elections continues to spread, many school leaders in Maricopa County have closed their doors to the democratic process.
August 5. Mark Follman: JD Vance Reiterates False Claim That Democrats “Tried to Kill” Trump: The VP candidate and other Trump allies keep pushing a narrative that threat assessment experts say will fuel violence.
August 5. Gergana Krasteva: Rioters set up ‘race checkpoint’ to ask drivers if they’re white and English.
August 6. Ayana Archie: A Virginia man has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Kamala Harris.
August 6. Ben Makuch: US neo-Nazi terror group aims to revive activities ahead of election: The Russia-based leader of the Base, which adheres to principles of accelerationism, seeks ‘A-team leader’ in US.
August 6. Francesca D’Annunzio: A Rancher Who Leads a Paramilitary-Style Group Sues Biden over Border Policies.
August 7. Isaac Stanley-Becker & Beth Reinhard: JD Vance in texts with far-right figure: Profane and off-the-cuff. Private messages show Trump’s running mate entertaining conspiracy theories and scorning the late Sheldon Adelson.
August 7. The Washington Post: Trump took a private flight with Project 2025 leader in 2022: Trump took the flight to speak at a Heritage Foundation conference, where he said, “They’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do.”
August 7: John Bowden: Uncovered texts reveal lengthy conversations between JD Vance and Holocaust denier.
August 7. Jordan Fischer: California woman carried ‘short sword’, tactical whip, other weapons into Capitol, DOJ says.
August 7. Vittoria Elliott: Elon Musk Has Turned X Into His Personal Political Playground: Elon Musk accused Twitter’s leadership of tipping the scales politically. But now he’s doing just that with X.
August 7. David Gilbert & Isabel Fraser: X Is Boosting the Far Right’s UK Riots as Telegram Scrambles for Control: Far-right protesters are trying to share violent rhetoric on social media. For the first time, Telegram is blocking them—while X is giving them a platform.
August 7. Madeline Peltz: Delayed publication of Heritage president’s book reflects Project 2025 shell game.
August 7. Gus Burns: Acquitted Michigan kidnap plotters fail in bids for elected office.
August 7. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Trump can’t take a joke. Democrats need to use that. The authoritarian right doesn’t mind being called evil, but being ridiculed is a different matter.
August 7. Martin Pengelly: Project 2025 leader’s book with JD Vance introduction delayed until after election: Kevin Roberts, president of hard-right Heritage Foundation, says it’s ‘time to put down the books and go fight like hell’.
August 8. Philip Bump: Trump compares his Jan. 6 crowd to the March on Washington.
August 8. Anna Merlan: Can Elon Musk Really Sue People for Not Wanting to Be Seen With Him? A lawsuit claims that corporate advertisers avoided X as part of a vast left-wing conspiracy.
August 8. Ben Makuch: Far-right online attacks against Tim Walz focus on conspiracy theory: Users of online platforms spread conspiracy theory that he changed Minnesota flag to mimic Somalia’s.
August 8. Leah Feiger: The Right Is Still Pushing Election Denial—and Pillows.
August 8. A.B. Stoddard: Get Ready Now: Republicans Will Refuse to Certify a Harris WinTrumpist county election officials are preparing to throw the process into chaos
August 9. Morgan Meaker: Olympic Drag Artist Nicky Doll Hits Back at Online Hate Mob: Since her performance in the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, drag artist Nicky Doll has been hounded by trolls.Now she’s hitting back by suing the man she believes to be their ringleader: Laurence Fox.
August 9. Michael Kunzelman: Man who attacked police at the US Capitol with poles gets 20 years, one of longest Jan. 6 sentences.
August 9. Alberto Toscano: UK Riots Have Their Roots in a History of Hate: The racism in the streets was seeded by the racism of the state.
August 11. Emma Yeomans: Exposed: how a Finnish neo-Nazi shared arson manual before riots.
August 12. CNN: Ex-sniper who infiltrated the KKK reveals what the group secretly talks about.
August 12. David Gilbert: Gamergate’s Legacy Lives on in Attacks Against Kamala Harris:A decade after Gamergate launched a new, toxic era of online communication, the tactics developed and honed in 2014 are now in full view in attacks against the vice president.
August 13. David Gilbert: Donald Trump Doesn’t Need X—but Elon Musk Desperately Needs Him Back.
August 14. David Gilbert: Trump’s Shooting Rattled QAnon Believers. Then They Doubled Down. A month after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, QAnon believers and their families are still stuck in a cycle of despair.
August 14. Vittoria Elliott: Gamergate’s Aggrieved Men Still Haunt the Internet: Ten years ago, much of the frustrations gamers were expressing came from anger over no longer being the target audience. Now those feelings are everywhere, from fandom to politics.
August 14. Eric W. Dolan: New research connects dark personality traits with political violence in multiple countries.
August 14. Jason Wilson: Ex-US air force specialist with Christian nationalist ties leads combat trainings: Michael Caughran’s history raises questions about extent to which his far-right and survivalist activities overlapped with his enlistment.
August 15. Will Carless & Jessica Guynn: Riots in the UK spurred by racist posts on X. Experts warn of a repeat in the US.
August 15. Geoff Dembicki: Shell oil non-profit donated to anti-climate groups behind Project 2025.
August 16. Red Flare: Mr.AG: The Mixed Race Finnish Neo-Nazi Behind the UK’s Race Riots.
August 17. Joshua Kaplan: Armed and Underground: Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of an American Militia.
August 18. Carole Cadwalladr: Inciting rioters in Britain was a test run for Elon Musk. Just see what he plans for America.
August 18. The Washington Post: Republicans flood TV with misleading ads about immigration, border.
August 18. David D. Kirkpatrick: Infiltrating the Far Right: The threat from domestic terrorism is rising, but, with Republicans decrying the “deep state,” the F.B.I. is cautious about investigating far-right groups. Vigilantes are leaping into the fray.
August 18. Paul Rosenberg: Donald Trump and JD Vance: Decoding a double dose of right-wing racism.
August 19. Jordan Green: ‘Absolutely essential’: Son of Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes is all in for Kamala Harris.
August 19. Jeff Tischauser: ‘We Will Fight!’ The Soldier Waging War Against America from Fort Liberty.
August 20. Ben Makuch: Neo-Nazi terrorist group using Steve Bannon account to radicalize people:Group is covertly seeding violent propaganda on to mainstream social media channels.
August 20. Phil Williams: A white supremacist warned me to comply with his demands or else. Now, he’s in federal custody:Hate-group researchers say Kai Liam Nix was the person behind the anonymous Appalachian Archives on Telegram.
August 20. Sara Ruberg: U.S. Army Soldier Is Charged With Lying About Ties to Insurrectionist Group:The soldier, Kai Liam Nix, 20, who was stationed at Fort Liberty in North Carolina, is also accused of illegally selling firearms.
August 20. Jordan Green: ‘Stop the Steal’ organizer hired by Trump campaign for Election 2024 endgame.
August 21. AP News: Police raid Andrew Tate’s home in Romania as new allegations emerge involving minors.
August 21. Anumita Kaur: Police spied on Ore. activists as they planned protests, movie nights, ACLU alleges.
August 21. Raw Story: Right-wing extremist tied to threats against Raw Story reporter arrested on gun charges.
August 22. JD Wolf: Trump Will Host January 6th “Awards Gala” in September:Event description: “We gather to pay tribute…to all J6 defendants who have shown incredible courage and sacrifice.”
August 22. Jordan Green: Nazi infiltrators lurk at Democratic National Convention protests.
August 22. R.G. Cravens: Hate Group Urged Georgia Governor to Ban Trans Kids From School Sports.
August 22. Joe Wiinikka-Lydon: Antigovernment Militias Seek Support From County Governments.
August 24. Jennifer Hassan: France opens terrorist investigation into attempted attack on synagogue.
August 25. Eric Hananoki: Trump shared post from N-word-spewing account that claims “Hitler was right” and the Holocaust “never happened”.
August 26. Jeff Stone: Far-Right ‘Terrorgram’ Chatrooms Are Fueling a Wave of Power Grid Attacks: Extremist communities see damaging power substations as a way to fuel unrest and ultimately overthrow the US.
August 27. Taylor Telford: Lowe’s changes DEI policies amid activist pressure.
August 27. Jordan Green: Rudy Giuliani finds a new low: platforming a Nazi.
August 27. Anna Merlan: Tim Ballard’s Claims to Fight Sex Trafficking Made Him a MAGA Star. These Women Told Police He Abused Them: The Sound of Freedom hero and Trump ally won renown claiming to save women and children. Women who worked closely with him, though, say he preyed on them—and have watched with disbelief as his star has continued to shine.
August 27. Christopher Myers: Threatened for protesting book bans, this librarian won’t keep quiet:In her book “That Librarian,” Amanda Jones shares the story of what happened to her when she stood up against censorship.
August 28. David Gilbert: The Trump Campaign’s Rhetoric About Women Sounds a Lot Like Andrew Tate’s: As the Trump campaign overtly appeals to the manosphere, a WIRED investigation shows that the view of women espoused by alleged rapist and trafficker Andrew Tate matches perfectly with that of Trump and his allies.
August 28. Sean Craig: ‘Family Friendly’ Gym Training Partner Identified as Alleged Neo-Nazi.
August 28. Jordan Wilkie: After white supremacists march in Harrisburg, experts say most area leaders model how to respond.
August 28. Rick Perlstein: The Election Story Nobody Wants to Talk About:A Q&A with David Neiwert, America’s foremost writer and thinker on far-right extremism, on what might happen if Trump wins—or loses.
August 28. Jason Wilson: Top Vance aide worked for far-right consultancy with extremist links: Parker Magid worked for Beck & Stone, which is close to shadowy fraternal order and Claremont Institute.
August 29. Hannah Knowles: 24 hours of Trump: QAnon tributes, crude attacks and hawking pieces of his suit.
August 29. Will Carless: Telegram CEO’s arrest roils far-right users in US.
August 30. AP News: Trump questions acceptance of transgender people as he courts his base at Moms for Liberty gathering.
August 31. AP News: Police say a man will face charges after storming into the press area at a Trump rally.
September. Global Project Against Hate & Extremism: Mapping The Far Right: The Movement’s Conferences Illuminate Its Growing Transnational Networks.
September 1. Kate Brady & Anthony Faiola: Far right set to win in a German state for the first time since WWII.
September 2. Laura Meckler: With his 1776 Commission on patriotism, Trump helped spark a culture war.
September 3. ProPublica: The Accelerationists’ App: How Telegram Became the “Center of Gravity” for a New Breed of Domestic Terrorists.
September 3. AP News: Man sentenced to over 1 year in prison for thousands of harassing calls to congressional offices.
September 4. Andy Kroll & Nick Surgey: Ginni Thomas Privately Praised Group Working Against Supreme Court Reform.
September 4. Odette Yousef & Mary Louise Kelly: The arrest of Telegram’s founder has spooked the far right in the U.S.
September 4. Erin Mansfield: Project 2025 ex-chief appeared on media channel DOJ called ‘covert project’ linked to Russia.
September 4. Ashley Parker & Maeve Reston: How Democrats made Project 2025 one of their top anti-GOP attacks.
September 5. Steve Beynon: 2 Virginia Guardsmen Are Running a Rural Anti-Government Militia.
September 5. Jason Stanley: Why fascists hate universities.
September 6. Ishaan Tharoor: Germany’s firewall against the far right isn’t working: Recent elections in Germany show the limits of the nation’s statist efforts to stamp out far-right extremism and ultranationalism.
September 6. Tim Marchman & Dhruv Mehrotra: What Right-Wing Influencers Actually Said in Those Tenet Media Videos: A WIRED analysis shows that right-wing stars like Tim Pool and Benny Johnson focused on topics like Elon Musk and supposed racism toward white people in hundreds of videos allegedly paid for by Russia.
September 6. Amanda Moore: Noise Pollution:Right-wing misfits and grifters at the DNC.
September 6. Kimberlé W Crenshaw: American democracy is in peril. And racism will be the sledgehammer that destroys it.
September 8. Noah Festenstein: Boulder Councilmember Tara Winer attacked during restaurant opening in University Hill.
September 8. Ben Makuch: Neo-Nazi and far right groups seize on Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric.
September 8. Mukul Kesavan: India is witnessing the slow-motion rise of fascism.
September 9. Steven Monacelli: The Far Right Is Preparing to Disrupt Our Election: Myths about voter fraud have emboldened extremist groups, in Texas and elsewhere.
September 9. The Department of Justice: Leaders of Transnational Terrorist Group Charged with Soliciting Hate Crimes, Soliciting the Murder of Federal Officials, and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorists.
September 9. Tim Dickinson & Asawin Suebsaeng: What If Trump Wins?The chaos and lawlessness of the first term could pale in comparison to what comes next.
September 9. Richard Luscombe: US says white supremacist group tried to incite followers on Telegram to spark race war.
September 10. The Washington Post: Elon Musk’s misleading election claims reach millions and alarm election officials: The X billionaire’s false posts about noncitizen voting spur officials to fact-check him, lead to requests to purge voter rolls, and add to worries about threats, election officials say.
September 10. Denise Dillon: Cobb County election board meeting ends after someone yells ‘heil Hitler’.
September 10. David Gilbert: He Worked for a Law Firm Consulting on an Anti-Trans Supreme Court Case.
September 10. Jessica Pishko: The Unchecked Power Of Sheriffs.
September 11. The Washington Post: Trump pushes false claims about migrants eating dogs.
September 11. The Washington Post: Anatomy of a racist smear: How false claims of pet-eating immigrants caught on.
September 11. Peter Hermann & Jacqueline Alemany: Feds increase security for Jan. 6 in effort to prevent Capitol attack repeat.
September 11. Jasmine Garsd: The stereotype of immigrants eating dogs and cats is storied — and vitriolic as ever.
September 11. David Gilbert. Trump Fans Spread Debate Conspiracy About Microphone Earrings.
September 11. Jordan Green: How Trump ally Michael Flynn is priming supporters for violence ahead of the election.
September 12. Isaac Arnsdorf: Trump stokes suspicions about assassination attempt, raising fears of more violence:After an initial period of relative restraint, the former president has begun blaming the shooting on his opponents and amplifying conspiracy theories.
September 12. Tom Dreisbach: Trump’s Bedminster club hosted an alleged Nazi sympathizer who stormed the Capitol.
September 12. Anti-Authoritarian Podcast: Countering Active Clubs: Lessons from the Northwest Pro-Democracy Movement, with Lindsay Schubiner.
September 12. Hansi Lo Wang: 14 pro-Trump electors linked to efforts to reverse his 2020 loss are back for 2024.
September 12. Patrick Svitek: Trump’s time with Loomer, a far-right activist, upsets his GOP allies.
September 12. Paige Oamek: Trump’s Deranged Migrant Conspiracy Is Already Fomenting Violence: The city of Springfield, Ohio, is already witnessing the consequences of Trump’s baseless conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants are eating people’s pets.
September 12. Ciarán O’Connor & Jared Holt: TikTok and White Supremacist Content.
September 13. David Gilbert: Election Deniers Want AI Cameras to Stream Footage of Ballot Drop Boxes.
September 13. Ali Winston: ‘Terrorgram’ Charges Show US Has Had Tools to Crack Down on Far-Right Terrorism All Along.
September 13. Brandy Zadrozny: Before Trump, neo-Nazis pushed false claims about Haitians as part of hate campaign: An extremist group that marched in Springfield, Ohio, and demonized Haitian immigrants saw Trump’s mention of baseless rumors at the debate as a victory: “This is what real power looks like.”
September 13. Jared Holt: The Springfield bomb threats are a natural byproduct of MAGA’s moral panic playbook.
September 15. Abner Hauge & Social Research Club: Terrorgram Collective Leader was a Tucker Carlson Fanboy and failed Youtuber.
September 15. WKYC: Portage County sheriff: ‘Write down the addresses’ of Kamala Harris supporters who display yard signs.
September 15. David Martin Davies: Constitutional sheriffs wrongly claim absolute power.
September 16. Jordan Fischer: ‘I’m so ready to kick the lungs loose’: Self-proclaimed Proud Boy, friend charged with conspiracy against Congress on Jan. 6.
September 16. Andrew Couts: Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk:Musk’s now-deleted post questioning why no one has attempted to assassinate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris renews concerns over his work for the US government—and potential to inspire extremist violence.
September 16. Brad Reed: Ohio sheriff asks supporters to ‘write down’ addresses of Kamala Harris supporters.
September 17. Robert McCoy: GOP Senator Goes Full Racist in Attack on Arab American Witness: Republican Senator John Neely Kennedy accused an Arab American activist of being a member of Hamas, in an incredibly racist tangent during a congressional hearing.
September 17. Shane Burley: Frankists, Talmudists, and Zionists: Shifting Sands of Antisemitism in 2024.
September 17. Marilyn W. Thompson & Alex Mierjeski: Judge Aileen Cannon Failed to Disclose a Right-Wing Junket: Cannon, whose oversight of the Donald Trump classified documents case has garnered widespread criticism, has repeatedly violated a rule requiring that federal judges disclose their attendance at private seminars.
September 17. Odette Yousef: The U.S. has had a long history of political violence, but experts see a new trend.
September 17. Talia Lavin: Anatomy of a Pogrom.
September 18. Isaac Chotiner: The Historical Precedents to Trump’s Attacks on Haitian Immigrants:An expert on white nationalism explains how such demonizing rhetoric incubates and spreads—and what sets this particular episode apart.
September 18. David Gilbert: Laura Loomer Is MAGA at Its Most Extreme—and She’s Closer to Donald Trump Than Ever.
September 18. Hannah Gais: White Nationalist Website VDARE Suspends Operations Amid Legal Scrutiny.
September 19. CNN: ‘I’m a black NAZI!’: NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum.
September 19. David Gilbert: Anti-Immigrant Election Deniers Have Turned Their Online Following Into an Army of Activists: A coordinated effort called “National Only Citizens Vote” has been rolled out this week by a coalition of people pushing conspiracy theories about immigrants voting in the November election.
September 20. Hannah Knowles & Amy Gardner: Porn site user linked to Mark Robinson also praised Hitler’s Mein Kampf:The Republican nominee for governor in North Carolina has denied writing the posts, which have upended his campaign in the battleground state.
September 20. Christopher Mathias: Trump’s Alarming Use Of A Word With A Deep Fascist History:Most people didn’t notice when the former president used the term in a Truth Social post. But white nationalists did.
September 20. Kelly Hayes: Firehoses and Snow Globes: The Politics of Obfuscation and Overwhelm. “The point is not to debate reality but to dominate it.”
September 20. Brigham Tomco: FBI intercepts threatening letter intended for Utah election workers.
September 20. Jared Holt & Nathan Doctor: A ‘Groyper War’ struggles to exert influence but paves the way for other bad actors.
September 20. Amy Gardner: Pro-Trump Georgia election board votes to require hand counts of ballots:Critics plan to sue, saying the new requirement would almost certainly lead to errors and could disrupt the process of certifying the vote in a crucial battleground state.
September 21. The Washington Post: What Trump has promised to do on ‘day one’ as president: Trump has made 41 distinct promises for his first day in office, including mass deportations and banning transgender women from sports.
September 22. Hannah Knowles: Trump’s second-term agenda on LGBTQ issues alarms civil rights groups:The former president, who has shifted his positions over the years, is now planning to lead the GOP charge on gender identity if he returns to the White House.
September 23. Yair Rosenberg: The Anti-Semitic Revolution on the American Right:How Jews became collateral damage in a Republican power struggle.
September 23. Joseph Cox: Telegram Changes Policy, Says It Will Provide User Data to Authorities.
September 23. Jared Holt & Nathan Doctor: A ‘Groyper War’ struggles to exert influence but paves the way for other bad actors.
September 24. Dave Collins: Judge to approve auctions liquidating Alex Jones’ Infowars to help pay Sandy Hook families.
September 24. Odette Yousef: In parroting a lie about migrants in Springfield, Ohio, Trump excites extremists.
September 25. Hillary Clinton: To err is human, to empathize is superhuman: Is there any way to drain the fever swamps so we can stand together on firmer, higher ground?
September 25. ProPublica: Neo-Nazi Telegram Users Panic Amid Crackdown and Arrest of Alleged Leaders of Online Extremist Group.
September 25. AP News: Suspect is detained after an explosion at a California courthouse injures 5 people.
September 25. Aaron Blake: The nativists have taken over the GOP:Just five years ago, 21 percent of Republicans in a CNN poll said increasing racial and ethnic diversity threatened American culture. Today, 55 percent say that.
September 25. Vittoria Elliott: X’s First Transparency Report Since Elon Musk’s Takeover Is Finally Here:In the first half of 2024, the report says, X received nearly 67 million reports of hateful conduct, and took action on more than 2,000 accounts.
September 26. Spencer S. Hsu: Jack Smith lays out Jan. 6 case against Trump. Will filing be public?
September 26. Maddy Lauria & David Folkenflik: Voting-tech company settles with right-wing network over false election claims.
September 26. Institute for Strategic Dialog: Alleged Patriot Front offshoot may be astroturfed by neo-Nazi accelerationists.
September 26. Jordan Green: Mother of South Carolina neo-Nazi leader arrested on Jan. 6 charges.
September 27. Lauren Aratani: MyPillow founder Mike Lindell denies nod to neo-Nazis in new ad campaign.
September 28. Christopher Mathias: JD Vance Speaks At Event Hosted By ‘Apostle’ Who Accused Kamala Harris of ‘Witchcraft’.
September 28. Jason Wilson: Florida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right:Next month, New College of Florida will welcome activist and writer Steve Sailer, a ‘proponent of scientific racism’.
September 28. Paul Rosenberg: Who created the “constitutional sheriff” myth? Hint: It’s not in the Constitution. Author Jessica Pishko on how two Arizona sheriffs created an entire mythology — and a dangerous movement.
September 30. Paresh Dave: Inside Two Years of Turmoil at Big Tech’s Anti-Terrorism Group:X has left the board of GIFCT, an organization through which tech companies exchange information to keep violent content off the web. It’s the latest in a series of episodes driving tension within the ranks.
September 30. Patrick Svitek: Trump floats ‘one really violent day’ for police to combat retail crime.
October. Kiera Butler: Christian Nationalists Dream of Taking Over America. This Movement Is Actually Doing It. The New Apostolic Reformation is “the greatest threat to US democracy you’ve never heard of.”
October 1. Matthew D. Taylor: Christian Nationalism Gone Global: Paula White-Cain, international networks of Independent Charismatic Christians, and political violence.
October 1. Reed McMaster: Trump called for “remigration,” a form of ethnic cleansing. Major outlets failed to cover it.
October 1. Maurizio Guerrero: A Secretive ICE Program Trains Civilians on Firearms and Surveillance.
October 1. Stephanie McCrummen: The Christian Radicals Are Coming:The movement that fueled January 6 is revving up again.
October 1. Eyes on the Right: Blaze Media Publishes Articles By White Supremacist Patrick Casey.
October 2. Jason Koebler: Internal Emails Reveal How Hate Overwhelmed Springfield After Trump’s Lies About Haitian Immigrants.
October 2. Shawn Musgrave: The Law School Dean Who Quietly Worked to Overturn the Election.
October 2. Ava Kofman: A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas. That’s Just the Start.
October 3. Tess Owen & David Gilbert: Trump Supporters Are Boosting a Clip of a Voting Machine Being Hacked. It’s Not What It Seems.The machine hasn’t been in use for a decade—and the hacker who exposed a flaw in it says he has confidence this year’s election will be run properly.
October 3. Scott Waldman and Thomas Frank: Trump refused to give California wildfire aid until told how many people there voted for him.
October 3. Tori Gantz: Extreme Weather Events Are Affecting Whether and How People Vote.
October 4. NBC: Bomb threats target NY synagogues ahead of Hamas attack anniversary.
October 4. Jordan Fischer: Idaho man bragged about joining Jan. 6 mob — then claimed to be ‘amateur reporter’ when feds showed up, FBI says.
October 4. Ben Makuch: Far-right extremists flee from Telegram to SimpleX over privacy features:App that doesn’t require users’ emails or phone numbers secured over $1m in funding with help from Jack Dorsey.
October 4. Jason Wilson: Marco Rubio-linked thinktank produces anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theory videos.
October 4. Jordan Green: ‘Scares the hell out of me’: J6 expert warns of disinformation ramp-up in mid-October.
October 5. Will Carless: Alex Jones got a big Bitcoin donation this week. Will his victims get that money?
October 6. Mariana Alfaro: Johnson won’t say Biden won in 2020, raising worries on 2024’s process.
October 7. Marina Dunbar: Marjorie Taylor Greene condemned over Helene weather conspiracy theory:Far-right congresswoman says ‘they control the weather’ as top disaster relief official decries those making false claims.
October 7. Jordan Green: White supremacist ideas go mainstream: How the GOP is embracing a dangerous narrative.
October 8. Jordan Green: Busted: Bundy collaborator fueled FEMA conspiracy in Hurricane Helene aftermath.
October 8. Institute for Strategic Dialog: Hurricane Helene brews up storm of online falsehoods and threats.
October 8. Will Oremus & Maxine Joselow: Officials face antisemitic attacks over Hurricane Helene response: Report finds Elon Musk’s X is fueling conspiracy theories that risk undermining rescue efforts and preparations for Hurricane Milton.
October 8. Tess Owen: Inside the Patriot Wing: January 6 rioters are running their jail block like a gang. They’re leaving more radicalized than ever.
October 9. Tim Dickinson & Asawin Suebsaeng: What If Trump Wins?The chaos and lawlessness of the first term could pale in comparison to what comes next.
October 9. Teddy Wilson: Morning Briefing: Drag Queen Event Target of Protest and Bomb Threat.
October 10. David Gilbert: The Influence of the US Far Right on Ireland Is Growing:Former KKK members, the founder of the antisemitic Goyim Defense League, and a QAnon promoter are all advising Irish far-right communities, which are increasingly looking to the US for inspiration.
October 10. The Wall Street Journal: When the Hurricane-Relief Worker Turns Out To Be a Neo-Nazi: Seizing on the politicization of the government response, white supremacist groups have turned out to help after recent storms in North Carolina and Florida in order to boost recruitment and burnish their image.
October 10. Edward Helmore: Trump plan for Madison Square Garden rally compared to infamous Nazi event.
October 11. Matt Shuham: Accounts Of Abuse Emerge At The Texas Border:There’s little oversight or accountability for how Texas soldiers guarding the border treat migrants and asylum-seekers, critics say.
October 11. Tess Owen: Leaked Docs From Far-Right Militias Show History of Voter Intimidation Plans: “All the state leaders should be getting their people out … to watch for ballot stuffing,” wrote the leader of the American Patriots Three Percent militia. “Our nation depends on this.”
October 11. Akilah Johnson: Racism was called a health threat. Then came the DEI backlash.A growing number of institutes exploring the nexus between racism and health — and their researchers — are under attack.
October 11. Odette Yousef: Small communities brace for potential election-related violence.
October 12. Ruby Cramer: Trump is ‘fascist to the core,’ Milley says in Woodward book:The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says Trump is “the most dangerous person to this country,” echoing dire warnings of others in national security circles.
October 12. Odette Yousef & Scott Simon: Extremism experts are keeping an eye on an event targeted at women in Washington, D.C.
October 12. Will Carless: Crowd members hold up white supremacist group’s slogan at Trump/Vance event.
October 14. Politico: Orbán threatens to mess with Ukraine aid to help Trump.
October 14. Jordan Green. Armed man arrested at rally tied to Trump’s ‘secretary of retribution’.
October 14. Flynn Nicholls: Swastika Flags Flown During Donald Trump Boat Parade in Florida.
October 14. Patrick Marley: How Trump may try to challenge the election results if he loses again: If Harris wins, election officials and experts worry Trump and his supporters will not accept that outcome.
October 14. Sarah K. Burris: ‘Doom spiral continues’: Report claims new NRA chief involved in ‘gruesome’ torture of cat.
October 15. Alexandria Jacobson: ‘I’m advocating Christian nationalism’: Josh Hawley’s ties to Project 2025 exposed.
October 15. Anna Merlan: Meet the Conspiracy-Peddling Gossip Blogger Who’s Cast Herself as a Trump-RFK Player: After defending Ghislaine Maxwell and Johnny Depp, Jessica Reed Kraus built a platform in paranoid politics.
October 15. Kim Kelly: How the Christian Right Is Hijacking America:Author Talia Lavin explains the dire threat posed by the Christian nationalist movement, and how we can “reclaim faith in the public square.”
October 15. Ryan J. Reilly & Jane C. Timm: How Trump allies stoked election chaos in Detroit in 2020 — and what they’re planning in 2024:Trump campaign and RNC staffers were central players in attempts to “stop the count” in Detroit in 2020, an NBC News investigation reveals. Next month, they claim 200,000 “patriots” will volunteer to watch the polls.
October 16. Phoebe Petrovic: Right-Wing Activists Pushed False Claims About Election Fraud. Now They’re Recruiting Poll Workers in Swing States.
October 16. Makena Kelly: JD Vance Adviser Posted on Reddit for Years About Use of Cocaine, ‘Gas Station Heroin,’ Other Drugs:Aaron Kofsky, JD Vance’s financial policy adviser, called Vance “a Trump boot licker” and instructed users on how to transport drugs through TSA in the posts. “Coke then opiates is always my go-to,” he wrote.
October 16. Ken Ritter: Former Las Vegas-area Democratic politician gets at least 28 years in prison for killing journalist.
October 16. Brandy Zadrozny: The Pipeline:How Russian propaganda reaches and influences the U.S.
October 16. Harry Shukman & Patrik Hermansson: Race Science Inc.: Undercover in The Human Diversity Foundation, the million-dollar race science company.
October 16. Jordan Green: An indicted lawyer at the RNC’s election integrity unit is still spreading election lies.
October 16. The Guardian: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss.
October 16. Robert Tait: Project 2025 ex-director denounces Heritage president’s ‘violent rhetoric’: Paul Dans blames former boss Kevin Roberts for blueprint’s downgrading after inflammatory interview.
October 17. The Guardian: ‘Race science’ group say they accessed sensitive UK health data.
October 17. Dell Cameron & Tess Owen: DHS Warns Law Enforcement Election Deniers May Attempt to Bomb Drop Boxes.
October 17. AP News: His country trained him to fight. Then he turned against it. More like him are doing the same.
October 17. Pema Levy: Elon Musk Is Directing All X Litigation Toward His Favorite Judge: The Texas-based GOP-appointee has a financial stake in Musk’s car company.
October 17. Matt Shuham: GOP’s ‘Election Integrity’ Lawyer Says U.S. Needs ‘Cleansing’.
October 18. Jason Koebler: This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages.
October 18. The New York Times: Trump Tries to Rewrite History of Jan. 6 in Campaign’s Final Stretch:Donald J. Trump amplified a conspiracy theory that the federal government had staged the Capitol attack and compared jailed rioters to people of Japanese descent in internment camps.
October 18. Ivey DeJesus: Church with ties to Christian nationalism is hosting Elon Musk’s town hall in Harrisburg.
October 18. ProPublica: JD Vance Campaign Event With Christian Right Leaders May Have Violated Tax and Election Laws:Ziklag and the Courage Tour, the far-right groups that hosted the Republican vice-presidential nominee, are charities that can’t legally intervene in political campaigns.
October 18. Odette Yousef: Nationalist Christians rally to repent for what they consider to be the nation’s sins.
October 18. Sarah K. Burris: New Jack Smith documents reveal millions spent on Jan. 6 rally.
October 18. Susan B. Glasser: How Republican Billionaires Learned to Love Trump Again.
October 18. Benjamin Carter Hett: Trump says criminal activity is genetic. Nazis showed where such talk can lead.
October 18. Hannah Gais: In Rural Pennsylvania, Extremists Declare ‘Victory is Ours’.
October 19. Christopher Mathias: Trump’s Campaign Rhetoric Is ‘Fascist.’ It Will Inspire More Violence. According to experts, the GOP presidential nominee is instilling a dangerous level of fear in his followers, setting himself up as their savior. Their only hope.
October 19. Will Carless: Calif. statehouse candidate who was at Jan. 6 spread antisemitic conspiracy theory.
October 19. Aamna Mohdin: Thinktanks issue UK ‘wake-up’ call to danger posed by scientific racism.
October 20. Ellie Silverman: Still tense from Jan. 6 riot, D.C. braces for what this election may bring.
October 21. Amanda Moore: A Christian Gun Cult Holds a Trump Festival:The annual Rod of Iron Freedom Festival was as absurd as it was terrifying.
October 21. Richard Luscombe: Texas condemned for placing book on colonization in library’s fiction section.
October 21. Ned Parker & Peter Eisler: New cases of political violence roil US ahead of contentious election.
October 22. Jordan Green: Allies urge battleground GOP-controlled legislatures to guarantee a Trump win.
October 22. The Texas Observer: Border 911: The Misinformation Network Profiting Off the ‘Invasion’ Narrative.
October 22. Russell Contreras: Americans split on idea of putting immigrants in militarized “camps”.
October 22. Jeffrey Goldberg: Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’.
October 22. Tom Dreisbach: Trump has made more than 100 threats to prosecute or punish perceived enemies.
October 22. Ben Lorber: Heritage Foundation’s Christian Nationalist ‘Project Esther’ Won’t Combat Antisemitism — But it Will Weaponize Jews.
October 22. Phil Williams: Two key GOP lawmakers threaten ‘political fallout’ if TBI continues investigation of Millersville police.
October 23. Joseph Cox: Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics.
October 23. The Washington Post: How a conspiracy-fueled group got a foothold in this hurricane-battered town: Over the course of 11 days, a supermarket parking lot became a snapshot of the chaos that can unfold in some corners of post-disaster America.
October 23. The Washington Post: Over 230 Republican candidates have cast doubt on the 2024 election.
October 23. Stephanie Kirchgaessner & Lucy Osborne: Donald Trump groped me in what felt like a ‘twisted game’ with Jeffrey Epstein.
October 23. Catherine Belton: American creating deepfakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel.
October 23. Jordan Fischer: Jon Schaffer, first Capitol rioter to plead guilty, sentenced to probation:Schaffer, a lifetime member of the Oath Keepers militia, is best known for founding the heavy metal band Iced Earth.
October 23. David Folkenflik: Jailed reporters, silenced networks: What Trump says he’d do to the media if elected.
October 23. Morgan Loew & Cody Lillich: Teen arrested for plotting ISIS-inspired terror attack on Phoenix Pride parade. Feds had warned of heightened threat environment surrounding Pride events.
October 24. Anonymous Comrades Collective: Samuel Austin Caskey: The National Justice Party’s Nappy Nazi.
October 24. David Gilbert: ‘Take Back the States’: The Far-Right Sheriffs Ready to Disrupt the Election. Constitutional Sheriffs are duly elected lawmen who believe they answer only to God. They’ve spent the last six months preparing to stop a “stolen” election—by any means necessary.
October 24. The Washington Post: Trump alumni warn he could deploy troops against Americans.
October 24. Ellie Sennett: Is Donald Trump a fascist? His former chief of staff and Kamala Harris believe the warnings are true.
October 24. Anita Snow & Walter Berry: Suspect in shootings of Democratic office in Arizona had over 120 guns in his home, officials find.
October 24. David Gilbert: Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity Are Promoting Scientific Racism in Search Results: The web’s biggest AI-powered search engines are featuring the widely debunked idea that white people are genetically superior to other races.
October 24. United States Senate Committee on Finance: Wyden, Raskin Call for Department of Justice to Appoint a Special Counsel to Investigate Jared Kushner for Acting as an Unregistered Foreign Agent. Kushner Acted as a “Shadow Diplomat” and Political Adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Who Directed Billions in Saudi Funds to Kushner-Owned Affinity Partners.
October 24. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: From Mussolini to Trump, Elections are the Autocrat’s Enemy.
October 24. Josh Meyer: Trump vows to go after his enemies if elected. Meet two enforcers ready to carry that out.
October 24. Marisa Kabas: Trump praises Hitler. ADL remains silent.In a terrifying moment for American Jews, the org is nowhere to be found.
October 25. PEN America: Cancellation of Naval Academy Lecture by Ruth Ben-Ghiat at Behest of Republican Politicians Threatens Institutional Autonomy.
October 25. Josh Hersh: NBC’s Ryan Reilly on what Trump might do if he loses.
October 25. David Neiwert: How is Donald Trump a fascist? Let us count the ways. (Twitter thread.)
October 25. Natalia Contreras: Voter faces felony charge after assaulting poll worker.
October 25. Brookings Institution: The counties that may try not to certify the 2024 election.
October 26. Tom Bowman & Lauren Hodges: The Jan. 6 riot included Marines. The military is wrestling with the consequences.
October 26. Odette Yousef: How civil society groups are quietly working to prevent election-related violence.
October 26. David Corn: Elon Musk’s $100 Million-Plus Gift to Trump: Each day, the world’s richest man is essentially providing Trump millions in free advertising.
October 27. Christopher Mathias & Matt Shuham: Fascist At The Garden: Donald Trump spoke at Madison Square Garden — 85 years after a pro-Nazi rally at an earlier iteration of the arena had similar messages and themes.
October 28. Lisa Hagen: Ballots set on fire in three states as Election Day approaches.
October 28. Ben Makuch: Neo-Nazi group the Base found a safe space to recruit Americans: the Russian internet:The move is part of an ongoing theme among the far right when western apps remove or moderate their accounts.
October 28. Marina Dunbar: Inmate Steve Bannon reportedly hangs with the white guys and teaches civics:Former Trump White House aide set to be released after serving four months for contempt of Congress.
October 28. Edward Helmore: Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes: ‘We want to make America hate again’:Far-right figure blames ‘corrupt leftwing media’ for January 6 attack on US Capitol in new Trump documentary.
October 28. Jason Wilson: ‘Expect war’: leaked chats reveal influence of rightwing media on militia group.
October 28. ProPublica: “Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda.
October 28. The New York Times: Inside the Movement Behind Trump’s Election Lies: For years, Republican activists have huddled in video meetings to talk about remaking democracy and plan for the election. The New York Times has obtained the recordings.
October 28. Will Carless: Why a potential Trump win, Jan. 6 pardons have one family fearing for their lives.
October 28. Laura Bassett: From Mommy Blogger to MAGA’s Most Powerful Weapon: The Story of Jessica Reed Kraus. The woman behind House Inhabit claims to offer an “independent perspective on the campaign trail.” But in 2024, what does that even mean?
October 28. Jordan Green: Marine accused of taking classified docs in neo-Nazi plot gets 7 years in plea deal.
October 28. Tess Owen & Dell Cameron: US Intel Says Insider Threats Are ‘Likely’ During the Election.
October 29. Tamara Keith: Harris returns to the site of Trump’s Jan. 6 rally to make her closing argument.
October 29. The Associated Press: ‘Bob’s Burgers’ actor sentenced to 1 year in prison for role in Capitol riot.
October 29. David Gilbert: Election Fraud Conspiracy Theories Are Already Thriving Online:Pro-Trump groups have spent years building election denial networks that, combined with Big Tech’s hands-off approach and continued foreign interference, have created a toxic information ecosystem.
October 29. Tess Owen: Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight:Ahead of the election, anti-government militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts. Meta isn’t shutting their groups down and is even auto-generating pages.
October 29. Sarah Ellison & Adriana Usero: Spanish-language election misinformation has a mass audience — and a long shelf life. Latino voters look to YouTube and WhatsApp for their news and can find unchecked conspiracy theories that align more with their cultural histories than current American.
October 29. Hannah Allam: In a race they cast as good vs. evil, Christian hard-liners are fired up for Trump:Christian nationalist tours timed to the election showcase the power and ambition of a movement aimed at erasing the separation between church and state.
October 30. Christopher Mathias: Trump’s Madison Square Garden Rally Was Even Worse Than You Think.
October 30. David Gilbert: ‘We’re a Fortress Now’: The Militarization of US Elections Is Here. From bulletproof glass, drones, and snipers to boulders blocking election offices, the US democratic system is bracing for violent attacks in 2024.
October 30. Josh Gerstein: Judge accelerates, relocates hearing on suit over Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day giveaway: The moves come after the Philadelphia district attorney reported receiving threats from Musk’s followers.
November 1. Tess Owen: Election Violence Is Already Here:With bombs, brawls, and stolen mail-in ballots already in play, the 2024 election is shaping up to be exceptionally chaotic. WIRED is tracking these incidents as they unfold.
November 1. David Gilbert: A Russian Disinfo Campaign Is Using Comment Sections to Seed Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theories.
November 1. Jake Lahut: Elon Musk’s America PAC Hit With Class Action Lawsuit.
November 1. Sergio Olmos: Election workers quit in Shasta as self-appointed observers roam office.
November 1. Matthew D. Taylor: Once a beneficent King Cyrus, Trump has lately been cast as a biblical avenger. Charismatic ‘prophets’ have long compared Trump to Bible characters to justify their support for the former president. But the latest iteration, as King Jehu, may signal tacit acceptance of political violence.
November 1. Odette Yousef & Quil Lawrence: How veterans are showing up — and pushing back against extremism — this election.
November 3. Odette Yousef: How COVID-19 conspiracy theories fueled support for Trump among Christian Nationalists.
November 3. Jake Lahut: Canvassers for Elon Musk’s America PAC Were Fired and Stranded in Michigan After Speaking Out: A dozen Black canvassers were tricked, threatened, and driven in seatless U-Haul vans. They were fired after WIRED reported on their plight—some without full pay or a way back home.